CLEVELAND – For the fourth consecutive season and eighth time in the past nine seasons, the Cavaliers will open the 2012-13 season at Quicken Loans Arena. The Cavaliers will host the Washington Wizards on Tuesday, Oct. 30^th before welcoming the Chicago Bulls for their first of 10 Friday night home games on Friday, Nov. 2^nd.

Cleveland will then embark on their longest road trip of the season, a six-game, 11-day stretch that starts in Milwaukee and then takes the Cavs to California before they work their way back east with stops in Phoenix, Oklahoma City and Brooklyn.

Every Cavaliers game will be televised in High-Definition (HD) on FOX Sports Ohio, with the exception of the December 5^th home game versus the Chicago Bulls that will be broadcast on ESPN TV locally and nationally.

All games will also be broadcast across the Cavaliers Radio Network by the Cavaliers’ flagship station WTAM 1100 AM.  The Cavs will also appear on at least three NBA TV national broadcasts: Nov. 18^th at Philadelphia, Nov. 26^th at Memphis and Feb. 23^rd at Orlando.

The 82-game schedule consists of 41 home and 41 road games. The Cavaliers will face each Eastern Conference opponent four times (twice at The Q and twice on the road) with the exception of Brooklyn (one home, two road), Charlotte (one home, two road), New York (two home, one road) and Washington (two home, one road). Each Western Conference opponent will play the Cavaliers twice, once at The Q and once on the road.